AuthorTopic: In My Life (Read 6638 times)

The only song that comes close to rivalling In My Life is The Beach Boys God Only Knows. It's important to remember that hardly nobody were introspective in music at this point. John Lennon could be classed a genius solely for this track. Completely underrated in what it did for music and songwriting.

Know this is old, but thought Gerry and The Pacemakers Ferry Cross The Mersey, which predates In My Life by a year, deserve a nod:

Life goes on day after dayHearts torn in every waySo ferry 'cross the Mersey'cause this land's the place I loveand here I'll stayPeople they rush everywhereEach with their own secret careSo ferry 'cross the Merseyand always take me thereThe place I lovePeople around every cornerThey seem to smile and sayWe don't care what your name is boyWe'll never turn you awaySo I'll continue to sayHere I always will staySo ferry 'cross the Mersey'cause this land's the place I loveand here I'll stayand here I'll stayHere I'll stay

Thought I could link this with In my life - Rubber Soul - to - I'm Looking Through You..

Tenuous ..I know, but it didn't deserve a whole new thread.

I was reading Beatle Gear, and read this great little passage. Just wondered if anyone can back this up? -

Barry Tashian of The Remains - " We usually talked more about music and records [than instruments]. But I did ask Ringo about 'I'm Looking Through You' and that tapping percussion sound on it. He told me that I was privy to a great secret, that he just tapped on a pack of matches with his finger"

If this is true..it's another shade of expertise to fizzle the Anti-Ringo/Drumming myths..

He's a great drummer, very good one. Lots of fantastic moments, but I love his drums in songs like: Long, Long, Long, A Day In The Life, I Me Mine, Come Together, She Said, She Said,... Do you know what I mean? Powerful drums!Ringo: I'm The Greatest. Yes, YOU are!.

Hmmmm did John or even EMI have a mellotron in 1965? I don't think so! I think Macca's memory is a bit hazy there!

Maybe Paul was thinking about a keyboard instead of a mellotron, but his memory fails when he remembers that year. The same it happened to him when he was telling an anecdote about the favourites songs of John when they were filmming Help! and according to Paul, when listening a side of a tape, John prefaired Here There and Everywhere to the songs of him on the same side of the tape (filmming Help!) :-/

Maybe Paul was thinking about a keyboard instead of a mellotron, but his memory fails when he remembers that year. The same it happened to him when he was telling an anecdote about the favourites songs of John when they were filmming Help! and according to Paul, when listening a side of a tape, John prefaired Here There and Everywhere to the songs of him on the same side of the tape (filmming Help!) :-/

What makes you think his "memory fails"? They were listening to some songs being recorded for Revolver. I think Here There and Everywhere and For No One were on one side of the tape, I'm not sure what John songs were on there but I like both those songs MUCH better than any song John had on Revolver. Paul said that was one of the few times John came out and complimented his songs. What's so hard to believe about that?